The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.